WordPress Email Before Download

Email Before Download presents your users with a form where they submit information, like their email address, prior to receiving a download. This plugin integrates with the popular Contact Form 7 and Download Monitor plugins. Prior to installing Email Before Download, please confirm each of these plugins is already installed and in use.
Email Before Download started as a plugin we developed for personal in house needs. We realized this could be useful to other WordPress users. At that point, we made the decision to release the plugin for anyone to use. Offering free support has been the only option, but with the increase in popularity our plugin has seen, offering a paid support option will improve our ability to help you as the user. The WordPress forums will continue to be monitored and updated when we have the chance. If you have a problem or need assistance more rapidly, now offer that paid support option, at a price of $10.00. With paid support, you will get a personal response from us within 24 hours of submitting a help request. We will work with you to get your issue to resolution, but can’t spend more than 1 hr for the $10. Beyond that, we offer consulting services you can inquire about as well. Click below to pay the $10.00 for our paid support and email us at ebd.support@mandsconsulting.com with your PayPal confirmation number and we will get started.

FAQ

Yes. We store a log of the downloads and you can export a CSV file of this from the Email Before Download settings page in your admin screens.

What if I don’t use the Contact Form 7 and/or Download Monintor Plugins?

You will not be able to use this version of Email Before Download without these dependent plugins. If you have specific reasons to avoid using the dependent plugins, please contact us and let us know the reason so we can take it into consideration.

Anything special I need to do with my contact form?

If you decide to configure the Email Before Download option to send the user an email with a link to the download, then you will want to name the email field “your-email” as shown in the example screenshots. Outside of that, nothing special.

What happens after the user completes the form?

By default, the user is presented with a link to download their file. There is also an option to email the user (with a link to the file and/or attachment) if you choose that route. You can even provide both the inline link as well as the email if you choose.

Are you changing any of my file or directory permissions?

WordPress allows direct access to files in your upload directories using a direct URL and we do not change those permissions. We do provide an option to mask the URL to your downloads if you have cURL enabled.

Change Log

Version 2.5:

Added ability to prevent specific domain names

Fixed download filename issue for .zip files

Version 2.0:

Support multiple download selection (within shortcut code, use comma-separated list of download IDs: download_id=”1,2,3″ — within the contact form 7 form used for multiple download selection, ensure you place the tag “<ebd />” where you want to checkbox list to be generated) as shown in screenshot 7

Add more information in the download history EXPORT .csv file

Added support for Download Monitor format code for the inline link that is displayed (within shortcut code, specify the format code: format=”1″)

Allow overriding the default settings with the shortcode (i.e. within shortcode, use delivered_as=”Inline Link” even though the general setting in admin panel is setup for “Both” — options are “Inline Link”, “Send Email”, “Both”)

Updates to avoid potential conflicts with other plugins

Added ability to customize subject line when emailing file download

Version 1.0:

Added ability to export log in CSV format from admin settings page.

Added ability to mask download file’s URL if cURL is enabled.

Added ability to expire the download link after a given timeframe.

In addition to emailing a link to the file, added ability to email the file as an attachment.

Added ability to download files outside of Download Monitor (within shortcode, use file=”http://mydomain.com/file.pdf” — no need to include download_id=”X” in this case).